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Webster JA, Edmiston TB, Rodning CB. Ensuring excellence and competence in surgery: the imperative of mentorship from historical and philosophical perspectives. Curr Surg. 2002;59(5):479-84doi: 10.1016/s0149-7944(02)00636-0.
Webster, J. A., Edmiston, T. B., & Rodning, C. B. (2002). Ensuring excellence and competence in surgery: the imperative of mentorship from historical and philosophical perspectives. Current surgery, 59(5), 479-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0149-7944(02)00636-0
Webster, John A, et al. "Ensuring excellence and competence in surgery: the imperative of mentorship from historical and philosophical perspectives." Current surgery vol. 59,5 (2002): 479-84. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0149-7944(02)00636-0
Webster JA, Edmiston TB, Rodning CB. Ensuring excellence and competence in surgery: the imperative of mentorship from historical and philosophical perspectives. Curr Surg. 2002 Sep-Oct;59(5):479-84. doi: 10.1016/s0149-7944(02)00636-0. PMID: 15727794.
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Curr Surg. 2002 Sep-Oct;59(5):479-84. doi: 10.1016/s0149-7944(02)00636-0.

Ensuring excellence and competence in surgery: the imperative of mentorship from historical and philosophical perspectives.

Current surgery

John A Webster, Todd B Edmiston, Charles B Rodning

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Medical Center, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA.

PMID: 15727794 DOI: 10.1016/s0149-7944(02)00636-0

Abstract

PURPOSE: How can the surgical disciplines (1) attract and recruit students of the highest capabilities and ideals; (2) ensure professional competency; and (3) maximize efficacy and safety of biotechnology translated to patient care?

METHODS: Critique of the occidental humanistic literature.

RESULTS: The imperative of mentorship is grounded in the philosophical traditions of occidental society dating from antiquity.

CONCLUSION: This essay affirms that imperative in relationship to the surgical disciplines from an historical perspective.

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